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Valerie Vande Panne

Category: Art

The Paper on the Street

How street newspapers in cities empower the people who experience homelessness. In 2011, when Michael Thistle, 60, became homeless after…

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28 May 2019

Burning Man is sooo passé

Or, never trust a gathering of tens of thousands of white people. I spend a lot of my time writing…

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27 Aug 2018

Using art to shine light on Shinola

You may have heard of Shinola, the racist shoe-polish company of the early 20th century whose brand was reinvented by hypercapitalists from…

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15 Jun 2018

Dayton Is Making the Library a Must-Visit Destination

With recording studios, dazzling art installations, and rooms equipped for virtual reality, the city is future-proofing an oft-neglected urban amenity.…

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2 Apr 2018

Santa Claus is a marketing gimmick. Let’s consider replacing him.

How Coca-Cola Invented Christmas As We Know It When you see Santa today, all fat and jolly and rosy-cheeked, you’re…

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13 Dec 2017

This Small City Is Showing How Supporting Artists Can Have a Big Impact

Dayton, Ohio, is cool. Yes, really. This little Midwestern city of 140,000 is overlooked by most of the USA—flyover country,…

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20 Nov 2017
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